IBM has a long track record of 'restructure and layoff' of it's Legacy Employees. I know many retired IBM Employees from the mainframe days up thru the early Desktop PC Era. Many convergent threads played a role in IBM's demise, along with CRAY and DEC also. In the majority of cases they each were told of their impending layoff due to 'corporate restructuring', always included personnel with 20+ Years in or were over age 50 and worst of all many had to endure the indignity of training their replacements, who in most cases were either 20-something pajeets from Bangalore or worse Chinese H1-B's. Many are still bitter to this day. There you go.
Shit, that's not just IBM. That's American corporate culture.
I went though the same thing last year and the dumb fucking team of pajeets they hired to replace me couldn't do the job. I shit you not, they rehired me.
Good for you. Hope they gave you back your previous position salary and benefits. Sadly most places would rather cove up this thing when they hire "curry-stinks" and find out they don't know jack-squat.
I taught those fuckers every damned thing I had learned on the job, and they still fucked it up. I even wrote 100+ page guides for them explaining how to do my job!
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samy90a44 ago
IBM has a long track record of 'restructure and layoff' of it's Legacy Employees. I know many retired IBM Employees from the mainframe days up thru the early Desktop PC Era. Many convergent threads played a role in IBM's demise, along with CRAY and DEC also. In the majority of cases they each were told of their impending layoff due to 'corporate restructuring', always included personnel with 20+ Years in or were over age 50 and worst of all many had to endure the indignity of training their replacements, who in most cases were either 20-something pajeets from Bangalore or worse Chinese H1-B's. Many are still bitter to this day. There you go.
Fullmetal ago
Shit, that's not just IBM. That's American corporate culture.
I went though the same thing last year and the dumb fucking team of pajeets they hired to replace me couldn't do the job. I shit you not, they rehired me.
aCuriousYahnz ago
I hope your salary requirement went up for the rehire.
samy90a44 ago
Good for you. Hope they gave you back your previous position salary and benefits. Sadly most places would rather cove up this thing when they hire "curry-stinks" and find out they don't know jack-squat.
Fullmetal ago
Fuck yes they did, and a $5k/yr raise.
Low_Paid_Porno_Noob ago
Never teach your replacement enough.
wgtt911 ago
most are not competent enough to learn and understand it anyway... had to train my replacement 3 times...
Fullmetal ago
I taught those fuckers every damned thing I had learned on the job, and they still fucked it up. I even wrote 100+ page guides for them explaining how to do my job!
475677 ago
Openly buy the best performer of the month a prostitute. It'll cost under $100 and motivate the fuck out of them.
GapingAnus ago
Literally, in fact.